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how severely would you like to restrict the surveillance by the national security agency? >> i would like to apply the fourth amendment to third party records. so when i have a contract with a phone company, i think those are still my records and you can lo at them if you're from the government if you ask a judge. a warrant applies to one person. not to everyone in america. it's absolutely agains the spirit and the letter of the fourth amendment to say th a jue can write one warrant and you can get every phone call in america and that's what's happening. i think it's wrong. it goes against everything america stands for and i will help to fight that all the way to the support. we need to get the supreme court to re-examine our records. >> so, you would ban if you could, all mass data mining. >> i'm for going after terrorists with every tool we have. i'm not opposed to the nsa, to spyi, but i am infavor of the fourth amendment. if you think someone's a terrorist, you call a judge, get a warrant. if that's person's called 100 people, you get 100 more warrants. if they've call
how severely would you like to restrict the surveillance by the national security agency? >> i would like to apply the fourth amendment to third party records. so when i have a contract with a phone company, i think those are still my records and you can lo at them if you're from the government if you ask a judge. a warrant applies to one person. not to everyone in america. it's absolutely agains the spirit and the letter of the fourth amendment to say th a jue can write one warrant and...
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. >> the national security agency is collecting so much secret data that it's building a new facility in utah to hold it all. collecting records of every phone call made to and from americans is unconstitutional and indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion of privacy. >> it's untargeted and in bulk and troubling. >> a 1979 ruling that said americans do not have a right to private phone records is outdated. everyone has a cell phone now. the nsa defended its program saying they only tap into that data base when there is evidence to suspect someone in the u.s. is collaborating with terrorists. >> the purpose of these programs and the reason we use secrecy is not to hide it from the american people. not to hide it from you. but to hide it from those who walk among you who are trying to kill you. >> but the judge said there's little evidence terrorists have ever been caught from these phone records in a statement edward snow den predicts this ruling may be the first of many. it will likely come up today when president obama meets with ceos from the nation's largest tech companies. >> the jud
. >> the national security agency is collecting so much secret data that it's building a new facility in utah to hold it all. collecting records of every phone call made to and from americans is unconstitutional and indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion of privacy. >> it's untargeted and in bulk and troubling. >> a 1979 ruling that said americans do not have a right to private phone records is outdated. everyone has a cell phone now. the nsa defended its program saying they...
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that's the number of cell phone records the national security agency is reportedly collecting every day. that's five billion per day with a b. top secret do you means leaked by edward snowden reportedly show that they contract individuals and map their relationships. the agency said they collect data incidentally and not deliberately. next number, $5,000, actually it's $5,000 and a car is the amount rob ford reportedly offered a drug dealer in exchange for a potentially incriminating video that showed the mayor smoke smoking crack. the dealer refused to sell the video and wanted to hold on to the insurance policy. three is the number of times dennis rodman will have traveled to north korea. he announced he planned to go back on december 18th. he is training the north korean basketball team for a match. we say game in america. a game in january. rodman developed a close friendship with the dictator kim jung un. 28 inches is how much snow has been dropped in the last 24 hours in part parts of the midwest. two harbors. minnesota got slammed. that's a town there. schools are closed and road
that's the number of cell phone records the national security agency is reportedly collecting every day. that's five billion per day with a b. top secret do you means leaked by edward snowden reportedly show that they contract individuals and map their relationships. the agency said they collect data incidentally and not deliberately. next number, $5,000, actually it's $5,000 and a car is the amount rob ford reportedly offered a drug dealer in exchange for a potentially incriminating video that...
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he revealed top secret documents that showed how national security agency studying communications of americans. snowden blaef believes he is forming a public service to the american people. >> even if you are not doing anything wrong you are being watched and recorded. the storage capability increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude to where it is getting to the point where you don't have to have done anything wrong you have to eventually fall under suspicion. >> it is causing debate about the government's secret surveillance program. they defend the program as an effective tool in preventing terrorist attacks. >> we face a very real asem metric threat in international terrorism. our greatest line of defense against that is intelligence gathering capabilities. we have to maintain that and it is a very delicate balance. >> other lawmakers are deeply troubled by this. the other is government over reach. >> terrorism remains a real threat. we have to cue the bill of rights. the fourth amendment which prevents unlawful search and seizures it ought to be important to us and
he revealed top secret documents that showed how national security agency studying communications of americans. snowden blaef believes he is forming a public service to the american people. >> even if you are not doing anything wrong you are being watched and recorded. the storage capability increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude to where it is getting to the point where you don't have to have done anything wrong you have to eventually fall under suspicion. >> it...
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the phone records are placed into a data base of the national security agency. this program first reported by the guardian newspaper. another program is tracking internet use like google microsoft and facebook play along. >> we don't hold data on u.s. citizens. let me go back to the mission that nsa does. foreign intelligence with a focus on counter-terrorism. that is our mission to protect this country from things like 9-11. >> the programs require political contortions from president obama who just weeks ago spoke of striking a balance. >> they have interest in security and values in privacy. >> back in 2007 candidate obama was not accommodating with the same bush era they support. >> i am going to call my attorney general and say i want you to review every executive order whether it is a wire tap or detaining people or whatever it is i want you to go through every single one of them. if they are unconstitutional we are going to over turn them. >> there is bipartisan support here in capitol hill by these programs the phone program some are calling a violation.
the phone records are placed into a data base of the national security agency. this program first reported by the guardian newspaper. another program is tracking internet use like google microsoft and facebook play along. >> we don't hold data on u.s. citizens. let me go back to the mission that nsa does. foreign intelligence with a focus on counter-terrorism. that is our mission to protect this country from things like 9-11. >> the programs require political contortions from...
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security agency to do is to reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world, things that virtually every human being in the western world now uses, to communicate with one another, and take whatever it is that they want without any checks of any kind. there's no courts looking over their shoulder to see what they're taking and they don't even have the check that they have to go to the internet companies and ask for it any longer. they have been given or have taken depending on who you talk to, direct access into the pipes where all of these conversations take place, and can suck up whatever it is that they want at any given moment. >> what this means in a nutshell is that the nsa on behalf of the obama administration had been secretly looking at just about any kind of communication they see fit from any american. >> yeah. i think this is really the important point, piers, is that there is a massive apparatus within the united states government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal and that is to dest
security agency to do is to reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world, things that virtually every human being in the western world now uses, to communicate with one another, and take whatever it is that they want without any checks of any kind. there's no courts looking over their shoulder to see what they're taking and they don't even have the check that they have to go to the internet companies and ask for it any longer. they have been given or have taken...
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whether the national weather service, homeland security, law enforcement agencies. these are people who they didn't go into government service to make a lot of money. they went in to provide services to the public, and they are dedicated. we heard the speaker say he would never negotiate with the president anymore. we heard cantor when he walked out of the budget negotiations and you showed this a few years ago, when he said the president we don't need. we need to work out a deal between the house and the senate and the president either signs or vetoes. this is not a debate between the house republicans and the president. they have to pass something in the house that the senate is willing to pass in order for the president to be able to sign or veto it. and what they've been unwilling to do is hear the senate majority. the only thing they're willing to negotiate on are budget related matters. they're not willing for any retreat on affordable care. >> michelle, let me ask you, are the moderate republicans cracking? i was going to say it appears to me there seems to b
whether the national weather service, homeland security, law enforcement agencies. these are people who they didn't go into government service to make a lot of money. they went in to provide services to the public, and they are dedicated. we heard the speaker say he would never negotiate with the president anymore. we heard cantor when he walked out of the budget negotiations and you showed this a few years ago, when he said the president we don't need. we need to work out a deal between the...
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i can't imagine a circumstance more extraordinary than the national security agency saying every phone call of individuals in the united states happens to be relevant to a national security investigation. >> just weeks ago, scalia made comments that says he thinks supreme court will have to weigh in on some of these critical events. >> and the administration, how vocal have they been on their position? >> as you can imagine, it's filed a brief in opposition urging the justices not to take up the case. a couple of key arguments here. by law, only the government or someone in receipt of that order, so this would have been the phone companies, can actually file an appeal. and also, you may have noticed there that amy said what they're doing is coming under extraordinary circumstances. what they've done is file a direct petition with the supreme court. the government says this isn't an extraordinary circumstance so they shouldn't get the special treatment. they also added this. the petition does not establish it is more than speculative than the n.s.a. has reviewed or might in the future r
i can't imagine a circumstance more extraordinary than the national security agency saying every phone call of individuals in the united states happens to be relevant to a national security investigation. >> just weeks ago, scalia made comments that says he thinks supreme court will have to weigh in on some of these critical events. >> and the administration, how vocal have they been on their position? >> as you can imagine, it's filed a brief in opposition urging the justices...
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the national security agency is focused by law outside of the united states. if an american knew that literally someone knew every place they went, everybody they were talking to, where, when, and however, they would freak out. >> and yet that's happened. >> that's happening. >> reporter: google is not unique in the quest for personal information. facebook has been accused in several lawsuits with tracking its users everywhere else they visit on line. facebook has denied that. at amazon.com the computers report not just what you purchase but everything you shop for to analyze what you might want next. google would not comment on the lawsuit brent scott has joined but said in statement that gee mails are only tracked by computer software. no humans read your e-mail or account information, the company says, in order to show you advertisements. no one is accusing google of using its massive data file zents anyone except to send them ads burke when it comes to sending raw and personal information, private industry is miles ahead of the government, and private indu
the national security agency is focused by law outside of the united states. if an american knew that literally someone knew every place they went, everybody they were talking to, where, when, and however, they would freak out. >> and yet that's happened. >> that's happening. >> reporter: google is not unique in the quest for personal information. facebook has been accused in several lawsuits with tracking its users everywhere else they visit on line. facebook has denied that....
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the national security agency is focused by law outside of the united states. if an american knew that literally someone knew every place they went, everybody they were talking to, where, when and however, they would freak out. >> reporter: and yet that's happened. >> that's happening. >> reporter: google is not unique in the quest for personal information. facebook has been accused in several lawsuits with tracking its users everywhere else they visit online. facebook has denied that. at amazon.com, the computers record not just what you purchase but everything you shop for to analyze what you might want next. google would not comment on the lawsuit brent scott has joined but said in a statement that g- mails are only tracked by computer software. no humans read your email or google account information, the company says, in order to show you advertisements. no one is accusing google of ever using its massive data files against anyone except to send them ads. but where it comes to the collection of raw amounts of personal information, intimate information, priv
the national security agency is focused by law outside of the united states. if an american knew that literally someone knew every place they went, everybody they were talking to, where, when and however, they would freak out. >> reporter: and yet that's happened. >> that's happening. >> reporter: google is not unique in the quest for personal information. facebook has been accused in several lawsuits with tracking its users everywhere else they visit online. facebook has...
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the national security agency is not reading american's e-mails and not collecting e-mail by either program. >> the federal government has no authority under our constitution or anywhere else to collect data on every american phone call. >> this
the national security agency is not reading american's e-mails and not collecting e-mail by either program. >> the federal government has no authority under our constitution or anywhere else to collect data on every american phone call. >> this
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the obama administration says the national security agency is compiling data. >> nobody is listening to your telephone calls. that's not what this program is about. >> it looks like this data mining, the collection of vast amounts of information, went beyond simply phone calls. reports followed that the government is tapping directly into the servers of nine leading internet companies including microsoft, yahoo! google, several of these companies deny they've handed over any information but the government now admits that for the past six years, it's been collecting information on foreigners overseas from the nation's largest internet companies. and now a report that data mining may have also included credit card transactions. that's according to reporting in the "wall street journal." tom fuentes is cnn's law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director. he joins us now through skype. tom, i really want to ask you first, unpack this for me. what is data mining? what are they doing with all of this information they are collecting? >> data mine something basically like coal mi
the obama administration says the national security agency is compiling data. >> nobody is listening to your telephone calls. that's not what this program is about. >> it looks like this data mining, the collection of vast amounts of information, went beyond simply phone calls. reports followed that the government is tapping directly into the servers of nine leading internet companies including microsoft, yahoo! google, several of these companies deny they've handed over any...
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. >> a bomb shell report this morning that the national security agency has been secretly collect thing the phone records of tens of millions of americans. a top secret court order forcing verizon to hand over the daily call information nor every single one of their customers with no suspicion necessary. >> the number of queries into this information is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of one percent. >> i don't mind verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the united states. >> the attorney general eric holder says the justice department goal in investigating leaks is to prosecute government officials who jeopardize international security, not to go after journalists. >> the department has not prosecuted in as long as i -- and as long as i have the privilege of serving as attorney general of the united states will not prosecute any reporter for doing his or her job. >> there are certain goals that i set for myself and for this department when i started back in 2009. wh
. >> a bomb shell report this morning that the national security agency has been secretly collect thing the phone records of tens of millions of americans. a top secret court order forcing verizon to hand over the daily call information nor every single one of their customers with no suspicion necessary. >> the number of queries into this information is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of one percent. >> i don't mind verizon turning over records to the government if the...
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security agency works. >> every day he's on the run, he puts the united states national security at risk. >> william burns is in egypt. he's the highest ranking official since the ousting of president mohammed morsi. >> he played in a polo charity match. >> do you have any recommendations for names? >> david. >>> a star was found dead this weekend in a canadian hotel room. >> the nation record holder admits he tested positive. >> a tv station live on the air. >> all that -- >> carly rae jepsen. this may be the worst pitch in history. >>> jordan spieth, the first teenager wins. >>> a 6-year-old boy who was buried alive at an indiana sand dune was buried alive. >> i hope we get to meet him, because he's extraordinary. >>> indy 500 winner accepts his trophy. captioning funded by cbs >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, norah. i missed you. out of sight, but not out of mind. >> welcome back, charlie. we missed you too. >>> we begin with this. there's emotional reaction after an acquittal of george zimmerman. a jury found him not guilty saturday night in the shooting death of
security agency works. >> every day he's on the run, he puts the united states national security at risk. >> william burns is in egypt. he's the highest ranking official since the ousting of president mohammed morsi. >> he played in a polo charity match. >> do you have any recommendations for names? >> david. >>> a star was found dead this weekend in a canadian hotel room. >> the nation record holder admits he tested positive. >> a tv station...
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security security agency is taking emails. words on paper and storing them. are you going to be able to find out? >> that's the question. the only way we will know is if president obama and his administration choose to be the transparent administration they promised they were going to be. if they chose to protect privacy, if though chose is it to release even some of these fisa court orders. they don't. they are horrified that we now know that probably not just verizon, at&t, i think every phone call and every cell phone in america is getting the same order. >> bill: going back to the caller center you are on the homeland security committee. i have got to know about the emails. and i would like to you find out and hold hearings and get them. in are you taking the emails or not? that's what we need to know senator. >> here is the question on the emails. the current law says that after six months you don't require a warrant. and that's even to get all of the data concerning them. it usually is not to read them. so, if we can tak
security security agency is taking emails. words on paper and storing them. are you going to be able to find out? >> that's the question. the only way we will know is if president obama and his administration choose to be the transparent administration they promised they were going to be. if they chose to protect privacy, if though chose is it to release even some of these fisa court orders. they don't. they are horrified that we now know that probably not just verizon, at&t, i think...
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the national security agency now has the authority to track the calls of every american, even purely domestic calls. and that's incredibly unsettling. some people have pointed out that it's limited to who you call when you call and how long you talk. but it could also reveal where you're calling from, and it's important to remember in the era of internet communication this type of meta data as they call it sometimes is more revealing than what you say on the call. it can reveal your political associations, your religious affiliations, your medical doctors, what doctors are calling as well, even your infideli infidelities. that's not information the government should have unless it's targeting a specific terrorist or investigation. >> you heard dianne feinstein and others say this is not new, this has been ongoing. your reaction to that, alexander. >> that makes the revelation all the more shocking. i think it's worth pointing out that what we have is just the tip of the iceberg. there's no reason to believe this order or similar orders are limited to telephone companies. it's very li
the national security agency now has the authority to track the calls of every american, even purely domestic calls. and that's incredibly unsettling. some people have pointed out that it's limited to who you call when you call and how long you talk. but it could also reveal where you're calling from, and it's important to remember in the era of internet communication this type of meta data as they call it sometimes is more revealing than what you say on the call. it can reveal your political...
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. >> what this program enables the national security agency to do is to reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world, that almost every human being in the western world uses to communicate with one another and take whatever it is they want without any checks of any kind, there's no courts looking over their shoulder to see what they're taking and they don't even have the check that they have to go to the internet companies to ask for it any longer, they have given or taken depending on who you talk to, direct access into the pipes where all of these conversations take place and can suck up whatever it is that they want at any given moment. >> i mean, what this means in a nutshell is that the nsa on behalf of the obama administration have been secretly looking at just about any kind of communication they see fit from any american. >> yeah, i think this is really the important point, piers, is that there is a massive apparatus within the united states government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, a
. >> what this program enables the national security agency to do is to reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world, that almost every human being in the western world uses to communicate with one another and take whatever it is they want without any checks of any kind, there's no courts looking over their shoulder to see what they're taking and they don't even have the check that they have to go to the internet companies to ask for it any longer, they...
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new details have emerged about a secret unit inside the national security agency called tailored access operations that hacks and of foreign computers to conduct cyberespionage. according to a bloomberg , theess week article harvest nearly 2.1 million gigabytes every hour. that is the equivalent of hundreds of millions of pages of text. for years the in as they did not acknowledge the in its existence but a pentagon official confirmed they do with a computer network explication. the u.s. cyber spies have also developed methods to obscure their tracks or disguise themselves as something else such as hackers from china. u.s. agriculture officials say they're investigating how genetically modified wheat greeted by monsanto turned up on an oregon farm even though it was not approved for use. the plants were discovered after former attempted to kill the wheat with monsanto's herbicide but found some of the plants had survived. testing determined it was from an herbicide-resistant strain that was field tested several years ago before protests helped force monsanto to withdraw it from the regu
new details have emerged about a secret unit inside the national security agency called tailored access operations that hacks and of foreign computers to conduct cyberespionage. according to a bloomberg , theess week article harvest nearly 2.1 million gigabytes every hour. that is the equivalent of hundreds of millions of pages of text. for years the in as they did not acknowledge the in its existence but a pentagon official confirmed they do with a computer network explication. the u.s. cyber...
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a federal judge in new york says that it is constitutional for the national security agency to collect information on virtually every phone call in the united states and opposite of a ruling two weeks ago by a federal judge in washington. >>> how about this? unbearable conditions continue with one of the world's biggest cities. a searing heat wave and no power and buenos aires has extreme conditions that people there say it's unablivable. >>> if you're able to brave times square on new year's eve, you're better than i am. everything is in place for the big night. workers installed the thousands of waterford crystal panels that make up this year's ball including one very special panel designed by 12-year-old coreless, martinez, a cancer patient and a single rose meant to represent the single gift of imagination. i have lived in new york many years and i have never braved times square. >> i did it a number of years working in the crowd. great people, so excited to be there. >> but? >> so cold. you get home and you can't unclench your muscles. you're so cold. >> my thing is the bathroom s
a federal judge in new york says that it is constitutional for the national security agency to collect information on virtually every phone call in the united states and opposite of a ruling two weeks ago by a federal judge in washington. >>> how about this? unbearable conditions continue with one of the world's biggest cities. a searing heat wave and no power and buenos aires has extreme conditions that people there say it's unablivable. >>> if you're able to brave times...
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that's a huge amount of data, and it's gathered every day and turned over to the national security agency in this enormous database. now, that's part one, and that's what this court order that was reported by "the guardian" newspaper talks about. it's the gathering of the data. it says nothing about part two which is what can the government do with it? now, the program is classified, so we don't know all the details, but what we've been told today by members of congress and people in the government is that the government must have a specific need to get into that database. they have to demonstrate to the fisa court what procedures they're going to use. and that if they get a telephone number that's found overseas, for example, or that comes up in an investigation, and they want to now check to -- and it's a suspected terrorist, they can run it through the database to see if that suspected terrorist number has called numbers in the u.s. and what numbers those numbers have called. so what they say is that you can't just idly sift through the data. you can't take the data and run it through
that's a huge amount of data, and it's gathered every day and turned over to the national security agency in this enormous database. now, that's part one, and that's what this court order that was reported by "the guardian" newspaper talks about. it's the gathering of the data. it says nothing about part two which is what can the government do with it? now, the program is classified, so we don't know all the details, but what we've been told today by members of congress and people in...
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bloomberg businessweek recently disclosed how a secretive unit inside the national security agency called tailored access operations conduct cyber espionage on overseas computer networks. the pentagon hackers harvest nearly 2.1 milon gigabytes every hour. that is the equivalent of hundreds of millions of pages of text. the pentagon recently promoted the deputy chief of the secretive nsa unit, rear admiral willie metts, to become director for intelligence of u.s. pacific command. mexican authorities said they rescued 165 migrants who were apparently kidnapped for ransom as they tried to cross into the u.s. most of the migrants were from el salvador, guatemala, and honduras. according to ernest international, more than 26,000 people of gone missing in mexico since december 2006. the remains of dozens of palestinians killed during the war of 1948 have been discovered in israel. renovations at a muslim cemetery unearthed six separate chambers full of skeletons. the victims were killed when israeli forces conquered jaffa, a palestinian city now part of tel aviv. in media news, a massachusetts
bloomberg businessweek recently disclosed how a secretive unit inside the national security agency called tailored access operations conduct cyber espionage on overseas computer networks. the pentagon hackers harvest nearly 2.1 milon gigabytes every hour. that is the equivalent of hundreds of millions of pages of text. the pentagon recently promoted the deputy chief of the secretive nsa unit, rear admiral willie metts, to become director for intelligence of u.s. pacific command. mexican...
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a bombshell report this morning that the national security agency has been secretly collect the phone records of tens of millions of americans. a top secret court order forcing verizon, one of the country's largest phone companies to hand over daily call information for every single one of their customers with no suspicion necessary. generally these kinds of searches have haed a specific tear rift group or organization they're targeting this one is extremely broad. that is why it has gotten so much attention. peter doocy jobs me live from the white house. peter, what kind of data do we know what the feds are looking for here? >> reporter: we know they want to see the phone number you dialed, when you dialed it and how long you talked to the person on the other end of the line. that goes for all verizon customers in the fights. there are about 121 million of them on an ongoing basis, from april 25th until july 19th. these details are coming from a secret foreign intelligence surveillance act, fisa court order, obtained by "the guardian" newspaper, from the white house. senior administr
a bombshell report this morning that the national security agency has been secretly collect the phone records of tens of millions of americans. a top secret court order forcing verizon, one of the country's largest phone companies to hand over daily call information for every single one of their customers with no suspicion necessary. generally these kinds of searches have haed a specific tear rift group or organization they're targeting this one is extremely broad. that is why it has gotten so...
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. >> reporter: the national security agency is under pressure to say how many u.s. e-mails it may have read in the hunt for foreign terrorists but private companies like facebook and google have access to subscriber e-mails every day. in fact, google scans the written content of millions of g-mails to analyze how users think and what they might by from an instant pop-up add. >> reporter: which agency has more information, government or google? >> google. >> without question, and it's not even close? >> it's not even close. >> reporter: it's unprecedented in history. an estimate 50d million americans use guy mail, all of which is scanned. everything you type on google itself is recorded from your computer. chances are if you use a smartphone, google knows where to find you. there's a new application that tracks where you've been and where you're going. it's designed to help you stay organized but it also records your daily life on a google server. they unlock so much about your patterns of where you purchase and where you go. >> private corporations are collecting da
. >> reporter: the national security agency is under pressure to say how many u.s. e-mails it may have read in the hunt for foreign terrorists but private companies like facebook and google have access to subscriber e-mails every day. in fact, google scans the written content of millions of g-mails to analyze how users think and what they might by from an instant pop-up add. >> reporter: which agency has more information, government or google? >> google. >> without...
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national security agency. now as a whistle blower he says his life is changed forever. >> you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries that no one can meaningfully oppose them. >> snowed says he did not even tell his live-in girlfriend what he was planning to do when he boarded a flight from hawaii to hong kong late last month. according to the guardian he's barely left his hotel room there and he is deeply worried about being spied on. he puts a large red hood over his head and laptop when entering his passwords. snowden has now joined the likes of two men he says he admires. wikileaks whistle blower daniel manning and daniel elsburg, the man who revealed the pentagon papers. a spokesman for the director of national intelligence issued a statement on sunday saying in part the intelligence community is currently revealing the damage that has been done by these recent disclosures and any person who has a
national security agency. now as a whistle blower he says his life is changed forever. >> you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries that no one can meaningfully oppose them. >> snowed says he did not even tell his live-in girlfriend what he was planning to do when he boarded a flight from hawaii to hong kong late last month. according to the guardian he's barely left his...
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. >> what this program enables the national security agency to do is to reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world, things that virtually every human being in the western world now uses, to communicate with one another. >> reporter: the program appears to be intended to grab non-u.s. intercepts, many of which flow through the robust u.s. internet. one slide in the nsa presentation explains, your targets communications could easily be flowing into and through the u.s. cnn has not confirmed the authenticity of the documents. several of the companies reportedly cooperating with the government issued denials of involvement. this follows the stunning news that a secret federal court order directed verizon to hand over phone records of millions of americans. former intelligence officials and privacy advocates say, it's reasonable to presume other telephone companies got similar orders. >> if this is an open-ended and indiscriminate collection process as it seems to be, then logically one would expect it to be much bigger than verizon business. >> reporter:
. >> what this program enables the national security agency to do is to reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world, things that virtually every human being in the western world now uses, to communicate with one another. >> reporter: the program appears to be intended to grab non-u.s. intercepts, many of which flow through the robust u.s. internet. one slide in the nsa presentation explains, your targets communications could easily be flowing into...
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and then also with the national security agency and the spying surveillance of our allies. there have been criticisms of him as disengaged. were you -- >> that is the furthest from the truth about the president. i used to see him every morning. i used to see him every morning, three or four times during the day, and every evening before i went out. when i see him every morning, he had read all the material that was presented to him by everybody. and he knew going into the meeting what the assumption of the other side of the argument was, why he wanted to -- exactly what question said he wanted about whether it was on economic policy or foreign policy, so the idea that he would be disengaged is unless something happened, i have never seen in the two years of intensity when i was there, i just don't buy it. >> so a very forceful defense of president obama by his first white house chief of staff. one other thing that was interesting is mayor emanuel when he was chief of staff, brooke, he was very open about suggesting that there not be this very ambitious widespread attempt to
and then also with the national security agency and the spying surveillance of our allies. there have been criticisms of him as disengaged. were you -- >> that is the furthest from the truth about the president. i used to see him every morning. i used to see him every morning, three or four times during the day, and every evening before i went out. when i see him every morning, he had read all the material that was presented to him by everybody. and he knew going into the meeting what the...
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security agency or nsa. this is the headquarters there. this is ft. meade, maryland. so if you called granny yesterday to wish her a happy birthday, chances are pretty darn good there's a record of that call in the nsa's massive computers. and you ask, good question, how do we know this? well, here is the order itself. formerly top secret approved april 25th by a court that issues warrants in the fight against terror. now we're learning this snooping started seven years ago. how about this? two highly connected senators speaking just a short time ago say it is legal, totally legal under the patriot act enacted shortly after 9/11. take a listen for yourself. >> this is just metta data. there is no content involved. in other words, no content of a communication. >> all of these numbers are basically ferreted out by computer but if there's a number that matches a terrorist number that has been dialed by u.s. number or dialed from a terrorist to a u.s. number, then that may be flagged. >> terrorists will come af
security agency or nsa. this is the headquarters there. this is ft. meade, maryland. so if you called granny yesterday to wish her a happy birthday, chances are pretty darn good there's a record of that call in the nsa's massive computers. and you ask, good question, how do we know this? well, here is the order itself. formerly top secret approved april 25th by a court that issues warrants in the fight against terror. now we're learning this snooping started seven years ago. how about this? two...
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security agency. now, i think we're entitled to know the truth. and we're entitled to seek an account from the u.s. administration. >> snowden fled to hong kong reportedly in late may. a rally is planned there saturday in support of him. the lawmaker also said extradition of snowden from hong kong could take as long as five years. >>> we are also following very closely this major explosion and fire near baton rouge, louisiana. we have just now learned that at least one person has died. you see the pictures. it was a chemical plant that exploded this morning sending this thick, black smoke into the air. and workers dashing to safety. look at this. the factory produces chemicals used to make plastics. we're told people who live in the area have been told to stay indoors, stay away from the potentially toxic fumes. parish officials tell cnn there were no fatalities reported from the blast. they told us initially. a louisiana state agency is reporting 33 people were injured, 3 in critical condition. the d
security agency. now, i think we're entitled to know the truth. and we're entitled to seek an account from the u.s. administration. >> snowden fled to hong kong reportedly in late may. a rally is planned there saturday in support of him. the lawmaker also said extradition of snowden from hong kong could take as long as five years. >>> we are also following very closely this major explosion and fire near baton rouge, louisiana. we have just now learned that at least one person has...
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. >> what this program enables the national security agency to do is to reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world, things that put virtually every human being in the western world and what they use to communicate to one another. >> reporter: the program is trying to grab non-u.s. intercepts, many that flow through the robust internet. one slide in the nsa presentation explains your targets communications could easily be flowing into and through the u.s. cnn has not confirmed the authenticity of the documents. several of the companies reportedly cooperating with the government issued denials of involvement. this follows the stunning news that a secret federal court order directed verizon to hand over phone records of millions of americans. former intelligence officials and privacy advocates say it's reasonable to presume other telephone companies got similar orders. >> if this is an open-ended and indiscriminate collection process as it seems to be, then logically one would expect it to be much bigger than verizon business. >> reporter: and it all lea
. >> what this program enables the national security agency to do is to reach directly into the servers of the largest internet companies in the world, things that put virtually every human being in the western world and what they use to communicate to one another. >> reporter: the program is trying to grab non-u.s. intercepts, many that flow through the robust internet. one slide in the nsa presentation explains your targets communications could easily be flowing into and through...
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." >> agency employees are typically polygraphed every three to four years. never more than that. the rate of this kind of polygraphing is rare, according to former cia operatives including robert bear, now a national security analyst for cnn. >> if somebody is being polygraphed every month or every two months, it's called an issue polygraph and that means the polygraph division suspects something or they're looking for something or they're on a fishing expedition. but it's absolutely not routine at all to be polygraph monthly or bimonthly or whatever. >> reporter: in a statement from cia director paul boid, they said they were open. worked closely with oversight committees to provide them with an extra ordinary amount of information related to the attack on u.s. facilities in benghazi, the statement reads. cia employees are always free to speak to congress f they want and that the cia enabled all officers involved in benghazi the opportunity to meet with congress. we are not aware of any cia employee who has experienced retaliation, including any nonroutine security procedures or
." >> agency employees are typically polygraphed every three to four years. never more than that. the rate of this kind of polygraphing is rare, according to former cia operatives including robert bear, now a national security analyst for cnn. >> if somebody is being polygraphed every month or every two months, it's called an issue polygraph and that means the polygraph division suspects something or they're looking for something or they're on a fishing expedition. but it's...
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what the nsa, the national security agency, what they have been up to. i think this is very enlightening. take a look. >> july 6th, 2012. benjamin anderson of albany, new york, makes a call at 2:36 p.m. to a residential call in malaysia while sitting on his phone. >> hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? >> okay. the opinion pages are going wild on this topic. we'll get to them in just a second. first of all, getting a lot of text messages about the last story. the butt slap. and they agree with you. believe it or not. >> rare occurrence the public speaks out on my side. >> i don't want to go into the case because that's serious, but he didn't slap a woman's butt. >> yeah. >> it was his male attorney. let's -- i mean, makes no sense. i'm just going to point out -- here we go. the ruling comes down, she's talking, she's talking. he gets good news. right? look. >> she on her own, she said look how great a job your attorney did. it wasn't like -- >> that was it. you missed it if you didn't see it. >> if he slapped him on the should wear it have been different.
what the nsa, the national security agency, what they have been up to. i think this is very enlightening. take a look. >> july 6th, 2012. benjamin anderson of albany, new york, makes a call at 2:36 p.m. to a residential call in malaysia while sitting on his phone. >> hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? >> okay. the opinion pages are going wild on this topic. we'll get to them in just a second. first of all, getting a lot of text messages about the last story. the butt slap. and...
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collects intelligence like every other nation. snowden still unseen in a moscow airport but making his presence known. >> what's your sense of the damage that's been done to the united states, our intelligence gathering operations through snowden's revelations? >> based on everything we've heard from the nsa, it's quite significant. one of those things it's impossible to prove. you've got to run counter histories going forward. but sure, you signaled loud and clear what it is we do and how we do it. people will change their behavior to make themselves less vulnerable. it's hurt us diplomatically. europeans kind of basically knew that the united states was watching and listening but this makes it explicit and added an awful lot of friction to what's already a fairly difficult relationship. >> i was wondering about the stuff, the idea that he's exposed what america is doing. i mean, don't they know this? didn't the fact that bin laden went off the radar, was so careful about not having any communications with the outside world for t
collects intelligence like every other nation. snowden still unseen in a moscow airport but making his presence known. >> what's your sense of the damage that's been done to the united states, our intelligence gathering operations through snowden's revelations? >> based on everything we've heard from the nsa, it's quite significant. one of those things it's impossible to prove. you've got to run counter histories going forward. but sure, you signaled loud and clear what it is we do...